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Omar Khayyam Quotes about Life

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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Omar Khayyam
Life, Happiness, Happy

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Omar Khayyam
Life, Wind, Water
Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.149, University of Virginia Press

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Omar Khayyam
Life, Wise, Wisdom

You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.

Omar Khayyam
Life, Departed, Return
Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.121, University of Virginia Press

But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

Omar Khayyam
Life, Moving, Night
Omar Khayyam, Saʻdī (1900). “Persian Literature: Comprising the Sháh Námeh, the Rubáiyát, the Divan and the Gulistan”

Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits-and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire?

Omar Khayyam
Life, Sorry, Heart
Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1989). “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.54, Branden Books

A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste- And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!

Omar Khayyam
Life, Taste, Waste
Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.167, University of Virginia Press

Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.

Omar Khayyam
Life, Thinking, Night
Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.136, University of Virginia Press

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